Learn in the textbookWork Environment and Groupware
DefinitionAn electronic bulletin board (電子掲示板) is a system where participants post messages in a shared space on a network and everyone reads them to share information.
ExplanationFor each topic, a unit called a thread is started, and questions, opinions, and replies to them pile up in it. Because the posts remain, people who join later can follow how the discussion developed.
AnalogyLike the notice board at the entrance of a community center. Anyone can pin up a note, and everyone who passes by can read it.
Memory hookIn English it is called a BBS (Bulletin Board System), and a bulletin is a notice.